Hi guys,
I was wondering if anyone has had any trouble removing passenger foot board bolt`s. I have tried loosening them and they won`t budge. Do they put Lock Tite on them? I don`t want to put heat on them for obvious reasons. I don`t know if I would run in to the same thing on the drivers foot boards, I hanen`t tried yet.
Thank`s

 

Yup... white thread locking material. Replace them with new chrome bolts and anti-sieze. Passenger floorboard bolts are known to snap off by just stepping on the floorboard.

Trick... Put on leather gloves, put a shop towel on the floorboard, cover your fender area with heavy cloth or padded mat... put on the allen wrench on the bolt, point the short end to the 2 O'clock position. Take a adjustable 12" wrench and put the handle hole over the short end of the allen and use it as a breaker bar extension for the allen wrench. If you have a ball end allen, use that. Ball end works better. You can either pull for your life or hit the end of the adjustable with a mallet.

When the bolt breaks loose it will either come all at once or move a little. The leather gloves are for the "all at once or snapping of the bolt" so you don't bleed after. If you snap one off, they come out easy with a easy-out of high quality.

Once the bolt is out, use a tap and clean the threads and blow the holes out with compressed air.

 

I have not tried to remove the rear foot boards but have had the right side driver boards off to install a Fuelmoto SS headpipe. The bolts came out with resitance due to thread lock but were not out of the ordinary. I reinstalled with blue lock tite. The rear bolts likely have thread lock but not the type (green) that will need heat. Try a manual impact driver or an air wrench set at about 50 psi. I think the torque on the bolts is in the 40 to 50 psi range.

Good luck and I'm sure someone else will offer some ideas over and above mine.

 

Thank`s guys i`ll try some of your hint`s and see what happens.

 

You Know how many 5-10min jobs have taken hours. I feel your pain. Just take your time and think it out first.